Diary of a prisoner
A white-collar worker who spent time in jail wrote about his experience on […]
Category: readings
Fred, a parable crying out to be a musical
The trouble with Brad Whittington’s Fred trilogy is that musicals differ from novels. […]
Carr vs. Masnick on pay to play
A two-part debate on whether newspapers can avoid the fate of horseshoe makers […]
God doesn’t love your 401(k)
That was the cover line on this excerpt from God’s Economy, a new […]
The journalist as research analyst
Here’s a kind of oddity — David Westphal of the Annenberg Journalism School […]
Rawls on religion
A friend sent this link on John Rawls and a collection of his […]
Paradise Lost, books iii and iv
I struggled with this book. Milton mixes mythological, Christian and pagan references in […]
When boys hate sports
By the time they’re nearly men, the boys in my town seem to […]
Beautiful grifter
Fortune did a good piece on a diverter scam. Diverter scams involve someone […]
Forsooth!
I loved Alex Beam’s farce on the Henry Louis Gates/Sgt. Crowley flap in […]